Michigan was well-represented at the 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, held at Hanyang University, Korea, from June 26-29, 2024, with presentations by several of our Linguistics faculty, current students, and alumni. Presentations by U-M Linguistics faculty, students and alumni:
Lauretta Cheng (U-M PhD, 2024): Ideology and Sociophonetic Representations: Investigating the Role of Awareness and Personae in Asian American/Canadian Speech
Jeonghwa Cho (U-M PhD, 2024), Harim Kwon (U-M PhD, 2019, currently associate professor at Seoul National University): Perceptual adaptation to novel speech patterns: the effect of perceived talker identity
Harim Kwon (U-M PhD, 2019), Suzy Ahn: Underlying and derived tense stops in Seoul Korean
Moira Saltzman (U-M PhD, 2022, currently assistant professor at California State University, Northridge): A sociophonetic study of tones on Jeju Island.
Jungyun Seo, Ruaridh Purse, Jelena Krivokapić: The effect of speech planning and prosodic structure on kinematic properties of gesture
Yoonjeong Lee, Jelena Krivokapić: The temporal organization of Seoul Korean prosody in multimodal gestures
In addition to being involved in two presentations, Jelena Krivokapić also served as a discussant in a session on non-articulatory gestures. Harim Kwon (U-M PhD, 2019) also had several roles at the conference. In addition to giving two conference presentations, she served as a member of the local organization committee for the conference, and of the the satellite workshop: “Phonetic Imitation: representation, sound change, and other theoretical implications.”
